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Not going to get bogged down in this debate. Never a good idea to start a discussion on a misunderstanding. Suffice to say I don't agree with the OP, I've talked with Dr Fallout before, I like him, but disagree with him on this particular issue, and yes, I did kind of assume you were anti-gay...

Nobody has said it in as many words, but Vergil's spiel about "It doesn't matter if it's at a state, tribal, or simply animalistic level. We all have an innate pull to continue on our lineage unless we have some sort of defect." just screams it.

Really? So the only reason my girlfriend and I don't have kids now, at the age of 29, is because the kids would have a better chance of prospering if I wait a little more? Nope, it's because we have things we'd rather be doing than raising kids at this stage of our lives, even though we are...

Ah, the old "homosexuals are denying science because reproduction" argument. Well if homosexuals are "unnatural" because they don't have kids, then celibate people are unnatural. People who decide to wait until they get on the property ladder are unnatural. People who use contraception are...

"NUCLEAR WEAPONS DO NO WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT!"

If I had my way Obsidian would have had 20 years to make New Vegas, and I would freeze myself until they were done!

Yep, there should be a chaotic wild card ending. Sack the strip with a bunch of raiders and junkies. Maybe get one of the Three Families to ally with you and let you in. Rule the Mojave as a warlord from atop a pile of skulls in the Lucky 38.

They're the tactics I'd use if I was the legion as well. It's implied they have huge reserves of manpower, but the evidence we see in-game is that they don't have the weaponry to equip all their troops with high-tier stuff. It makes sense to send in the cannon fodder first if you have plenty of...

I hand-wave away the transistor thing as something the military kept to themselves. Consumer goods are mostly stuck in the 50s, although things like personal robot butlers are starting to bring microprocessors into the mainstream slowly.

Pff... An Enclave trooper never turns his back on the enemy. A hole in the back is of no significance.

Around the time the bombs dropped? Probably somewhere like the Kergeulen Islands. Have yourself a nice little survivalist community far from anywhere anybody is likely to drop a nuke. Ride things out without any mutants, hunting wild sheep, fish and seals. A few centuries after the apocalypse...

Actually, this does bring up an interesting point relating to Fallout. If I was a Russian, I'd probably prefer to have lived under the Soviets than the Tsars (even under the 20 years of Stalin, if I'd kept my head down). As you said, they transformed an oppressive agrarian country to an...

Oh cool, lovely country. If you want other examples, look at Islamic State. They actively and brutally crush other cultures within their borders, christians, Shi'a, Yazidis. It doesn't make them peacefully assimilate, it makes them fight. The same in imperial China. A vast and disparate empire...

Of course they did. One of the core tenets of communism is that your previous identity, be it defined by class, race, or nationality, is replaced by a new identity as a socialist cog. Ask, say, Estonians how much they were allowed to keep their cultural and national identity during the years of...

Nope, but the Soviet Union did. Brutality only works up to a certain point. How exactly are the Legion going to conquer the NCR? It will be nearly impossible to assimilate half a million citizens, like they would with a tribe. And NCR citizens from the Core Region aren't going to be impressed...

Dr. Fallout in 3... 2... 1...

I think the legion would be more interesting if it was more pragmatic and less rabid. Possibly my biggest criticism of the game is that the Legion is too one-dimensional. And I never had any time for Caesar's pseudo-philosphic hegelian bullshit. I don't think the game would lose anything if that...

I would have a lot more time for Caesar if he stuck to conquering tribals and raiders. Maybe a brutal system is necessary there, it's when he still employs the same tactics against the NCR, which already provides safety for its citizens, that I really start to have a problem. Side point: How...

Which is why the legion are so much better than raiders. They have a system of morals. Sure, it's a perverse and pretty horrible system, but it allows a lot of people to live in peace and security, rather than endless bloodshed. I don't think they're anywhere near as good as the NCR's morals...

Otherwise known as "being paid to do your job". Is the UK parliament any different? It's only a few short years since the expenses scandal. Majority governments with pretty much no accountability to the people, since all they have to do to get elected is be "less bad than the other guy". Good...